Next up: Webb will move forward into the last full extension of its iconic primary mirror & sunshield, followed by a full systems evaluation before being shipped to South America.pic.twitter.com/WvUNLVB9eO
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The next environment #NASAWebb will experience is space! Webb’s recent tests have validated that the fully assembled observatory will endure the deafening noise & jarring shakes, rattles and vibrations of liftoff. 
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Shown: Testing teams at
@NorthropGrumman in Redondo Beach, California carefully lower the fully-assembled James Webb Space Telescope onto a shaker table at their sine-vibration testing facility.#NASAWebbpic.twitter.com/OEX0o1JtOH
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This started in 1996 and it's still not in space???
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A space telescope is VERY difficult to build.
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Oh hell fucking YES! Finally! So spring 2021 is confirmed??
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it has been delayed to (no sooner than) 31 October 2021 few months ago
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Great news, a gamechanger.
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So Webb is getting ready for launch? Looking forward to that, it's been years, go, Webb Space Telescope
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Hmm, decades not years.
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After 2020, James Webb is ready to leave Earth forever!
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